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SAVE THE DATE: JUNE 10 to 14, 2024 SOLD OUT
Imagine the opportunity to join fellow artists to paint along the Georgian Bay in Ontario, Canada. Only 2 hours north of Toronto is the scenic Clarksburg, Meaford, and Thornbury area with charming waterfront towns, private gardens, farms and estates. On each of 5 days, our site will be in a new location chosen specially for the day’s learning: waterscapes, private gardens, structures, close observation, long views etc. Each location has a special “look” to inspire your creativity. Mark your calendars for the week of June 10 to 14, 2024, for Alex’s painting in a loose manner watercolor course.
Registration starts on February 10.
http://www.bluemountainpainting.ca
2024
http://www.artleaguehhi.org
HILTON HEAD ART LEAGUE CLASSES
106 Cordillo Parkway, Hilton Head Island, SC
June 15, 2023 invited artist demo for the Toronto Watercolor Society.
TWS Artline
JUNE 2023
Programs, continued…
June 14th: Alexandra Sharma
The guest artist for our June meeting will be Alexandra Sharma. Alexandra is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, and art professor. Coming from a family of artists, she learned a unique awareness of form and space from her sculptor father.
Alexandra has a degree in Fine Arts and has studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, and Oxford University in England. She has been teaching and painting in Canada and the United States for twenty-five years. Alexandra paints en plein air and is known for her loose painting style and her ability to capture “the essence of the moment.” She has taught art at college and university levels in Toronto and more recently, in Beaufort and Hilton Head, South Carolina.
The outdoors, in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, is Alexandra’s studio. She finds her subject matter in hidden or forgotten places, and focusses on the play of light and shadow, colour, an unusual point of view, and mood at a particular time of day. Alexandra is a member of many art associations and guilds and she exhibits her work at the Charles Street Gallery in Beaufort, S.C. and several places in Hilton Head, S.C.
“Mastering a loose technique is the groundwork that will enable you to paint intuitively and creatively,” says Alex. In her June demo, she will show how she achieves atmospheric perspective and the illusion of depth and distance through value, colour, contour edges, and brush technique.
June 13-17, 2022, 5-day plein air watercolor landscape course: Blue Mountain School of Landscape Painting
Location: Thornbury, Ontario, Canada, on scenic Georgian Bay approximately 2 hours north of Toronto
Course Title: “Watercolor: Painting Intuitively”
Description: Mastering a loose technique is the groundwork that will enable you to paint intuitively. Imagine the freedom you will experience when your brush strokes describe the shape and “look” of your subject without picky detail. Develop or perfect a style that maximizes watercolour spontaneity and expressive freedom. Specific brush technique, juxtaposition of values and use of visual texture and rhythm to create your scene are the focus of this course as we paint on site. Each class starts with a demonstration specific to the learning for the day.
To register: https://www.bluemountainpainting.ca
♦ On-Going, Year-Round, Classes, Workshops and Zoom Demos
Register: www.artleaguehhi.org
In-Person Classes at Art League of Hilton Head Academy, 106 Cordillo Parkway, Hilton Head Is., SC, 843-842-5738,
Watercolor for Beginner & Intermediate Students with Alex Sharma
Thursdays, October 26 & November 2, 9, 16, 2023 (1-4pm)
PRICE: $200; $180 for ALHH Members ($20 cash supply fee)
Sculpture with Alex Sharma
Fridays, October 27 & November 3, 2023 (1-4pm)
PRICE: $100; $90 for ALHH Members ($20 cash supply fee)
LINK: https://shop.artleaguehhi.org/module/class/503636/sculpture-octnov-2023-with-alex-sharma
Acrylic Pouring Magic with Alex Sharma
Saturday, October 28, 2023 (10am to 4pm)
PRICE: $100; $90 for ALHH Members ($20 cash supply fee)
Printmaking 101 with Alex Sharma
Saturday to Monday, November 11, 12, 13, 2023 (9:30am to 12:30pm)
PRICE: $150; $135 for ALHH Members ($20 cash materials fee)
LINK: https://shop.artleaguehhi.org/module/class/503637/printmaking-101-november-2023-with-alex-sharma
Color Theory with Alex Sharma
Monday, November 20, 2023 (1-4pm)
PRICE: $50; $34 for ALHH Members
LINK: https://shop.artleaguehhi.org/module/class/503640/color-theory-november-20-2023-with-alex-sharma
On-Line Zoom Demos Register at www.artleaguehhi.org
2023:
Friday, June 30: Tree Shapes and Atmospheric Perspective
Friday, July 28:Everything Water: Focus on Reflectio
Friday, August 25: Perspective for Artists
Wednesday, September 13, Painting Eyes
2022:
Friday, April 8: Sketching and Painting for the Traveler
Friday, March 11: Colour Theory: Six Primary Colors for an Unlimited Palette
Friday, Feb. 11: Palette Knife Painting for Sky and Water in Oils and Acrylics
Friday, Jan. 7: How to Create the Illusion of Depth and Distance in your paintings.
Collections:
The City of Toronto corporate collection
The University of South Carolina-Beaufort Pritchards Island paintings collection, New River Campus library and Hospitality Campus, Hilton Head Is., SC.
Xanadu Condominiums, Hilton Head Island, SC
Numerous exhibitions of paintings, print works, and sculpture in Canada and the United States.
Awards for sculpture including a “first in class” at the International Woodcarver’s Show, Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, Canada.
Where to find my work:
The Hilton Head Art League Academy, 106 Cordillo Pkwy., Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. www.artleaguehhi.org
Coastal Discovery Museum Gift Shop Honey Horn Historic site, Hilton Head Island, SC
The Sandbox Children’s Museum interactive learning and play center at Tanger 2 outlet mall, 1414 Fording Island Road, Suite E180, Bluffton, SC.
Membership:
Founding member of the Multi Media Arts Guild, Kingston, Ontario
Member of the Hilton Head Art League
The Apple Pie Painters
Lifetime member of the American art honorary society, Delta Phi Delta.
Book Illustrations:
“Something So Real”: a new inspirational book by Shannon Kaprive with 64 color plates of original watercolor paintings by Alexandra Sharma. Publisher: Star Books www.shannonkaprive.com
Exhibitions and workshops:
♦ Solo Show: March-April, 2018, “Historic Bluffton: Paintings From the Archives”, Bluffton Public Library, 120 Palmetto Way, Bluffton, SC.
♦ Solo Show: March 2017, “Rose Hill and Belfair Mansions: intimate and Revealing Watercolors”, Art League of Hilton Head, SC, Walter Greer Gallery
♦ JUROR, 53rd Annual Shrimp Festival Art Exhibition, Fernandina Beach, Florida, April 30, 2016
♦ “THE ART OF TEACHING”, Aug.-Sept, 2010, group show, Walter Greer Gallery, Art Center of Coastal Carolina, Hilton Head Island, SC
♦ Solo Show Oct.-Nov. 2013, “FRESH PAINT: New watercolor Paintings by Alexandra Sharma”, Walter Greer Gallery, Art Center of Coastal Carolina, Hilton Head Is., SC
♦ “APPLE PIE PAINTERS”, Aug.-Sept. 2011, group show, Walter Greer Gallery, Art Center of Coastal Carolina, Hilton Head Island, SC
♦ PAINTING WORKSHOP, Todi, Italy: May 5 – 12, 2011
♦ “AL FRESCO”, May-June, 2010, “Five Artists Reveal Nature’s Bounty”, group show, May- June, 2010 Head Art League Gallery
♦ “APPLE PIE PAINTERS ON THE MOVE”: 9 Artists, 9 diverse perspectives, group show, April, 2010, The Charles Street Gallery, 914 Charles Street, Beaufort, SC www.thecharlesstreetgallery.com
♦ SOUTHAMPTON ART SCHOOL, Southampton, Ontario, Canada, June, 2010 www.southamptonart.com
♦ MIDDLETOWN ARTS CENTER, Middletown, Ohio, Oil painting workshop: Nov,, 2009. www.middletownartscenter.com
♦ BLUE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING: acrylic workshop June-July, 2009. www.bluemountainpainting.ca
♦ “THE APPLE PIE PAINTERS INSPIRED BY HONEY HORN”, group show, May-Aug, 2008, Coastal Discovery Museum Gallery at Honey Horn, Hilton Head Island, SC
♦ Solo Show, March-April, 2008, “WATER WORKS”, , Hilton Head Art League Gallery, HHI, SC
♦ Solo Show, Nov., 2006, “EAST MEETS WEST”, Recent paintings from India, Mars the Real Estate Store, Palmetto Bay Rd, Hilton Head Island. November 1-30, 2006
♦ “AS WE SEE IT”, group show, April, 2006, Walter Greer Gallery, Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, Hilton Head Is., SC.
♦ “WINTERFAIRE”, group show, Dec. 2005, Hilton Head Gallery, Dec. 4 – 10, 2005
♦ “ISLAND TREASURES REVEALED”, group show, Sept.-Dec. 2005, , Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head Is., SC , 843-689-6767
♦ Solo Show, April 2005, “ISLAND PERSPECTIVES”, Hilton Head Framing and Gallery, Pineland Station, Hilton Head Is., SC
♦ “APPLE PIE PAINTERS” group show, April 2005,: Mars the Real Estate Store, Palmetto Bay Rd, Hilton Head Is., SC
♦ Solo Show, Feb.-March, 2005, “WATER-COLOR-INK”, Art League of Hilton Head Gallery, Pineland Station, Hilton Head Is., SC
♦ Solo Show, Feb-March 2004, “OIL AND WATER EXPLORATIONS”, Charles Street Gallery, Beaufort, SC, 843-521-9054
Publications:
Art League of Hilton Head 2004 to present
New York Times Oct. 28, 2005
Island Packet Mar 12, 2001, May 12, 2002, Nov. 20, 2002, Apr 8, 2004, Feb. 4, 2005, Feb. 11. 2005, April 12, 2005, Oct. 14, 2005, Nov. 18, 2005, Mar 24, 2006, Mar 25, 2011, Feb. 17, 2017, Mar 3, 2017
Low Country Weekly Nov. 26, 2003, Feb. 4-17, 2004, April 20- May 3, 2005, Dec. 7-20, 2005, Mar 22-Apr. 4, 2006, Feb 22-Mar 7, 2017, Aug 5-18, 2020
Beaufort Gazette Feb 20, 2004, Feb 20, 2005, Mar 2005, Nov 18, 2005, May 2010
Carolina Morning News Apr 8, 2014, Sept 15, 2005
Hilton Head Sun Feb 3, 2016, Mar 1, 2018, Mar 7, 2018
Bluffton Sun Mar 1, 2017, Mar 14, 2017
Bluffton Today Mar 2, 2006, Apr 2006, July 2011
Bluffton Breeze March 2017
The Posh Rock Rail Nov 2002
The News Leader Apr-May 2016
Art News (Arts Council Oct-Dec 2003, 2004, March 2005, Spring 2005, Dec 2005, Winter Beaufort County) 2005, Spring 2006, Nov 2009
Arts and Culture (USCB) Feb-Mar 1999, Apr-May 2002, 2003-2004, 2005
Hilton Head Monthly May 2008, Feb 2018
Local Life Magazine Nov 2017, Feb 2018, Sept 2021
Pink Magazine Oct 2005, Mar 2018
South Magazine Mar 2017
Low Country Event Mar 2017
Coastal Senior Feb 2005
Carolina Arts Feb 2005
Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Program 2009-2010, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019
Toronto Bd. of Education Fall/Winter 1982-1998